222: Matt McCarthy | The Race to Stop a Superbug Epidemic
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Matt McCarthy (@drmattmccarthy) is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.
What We Discuss with Matt McCarthy:- How antibiotics are abused on a large scale by industrial agriculture, prescription-happy doctors, and mysophobic hand washers.
- Why antibiotic abuse is resulting in the fast-track evolution of once easily vanquished bacteria into superbugs from which we have no known protection.
- How herd immunity works, and why you may be at risk for contracting a once-eradicated disease thanks to anti-vaccination propaganda.
- Why the FDA approval process takes so long for new drugs to safely come to market, and how this hinders innovation in a profit-driven pharmaceutical market.
- How genetic editing through new CRISPR technology may be our best hope for quickly reacting to rapidly adapting superbugs.
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.5 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.3 | With all the news lately about the homeless problem in Los Angeles and vaccination drama |
| 0:12.2 | here in California bringing back diseases we thought we'd gotten rid of for decades, |
| 0:16.9 | I thought it was high time we started talking about something more cheerful and upbeat, |
| 0:20.7 | namely, dying of something even more horrible, antibiotic resistance trains of bacteria. |
| 0:26.5 | You may have heard that overuse of antibiotics has been creating resistant organisms or |
| 0:30.7 | super bugs, but what you might not know is that we're actually not developing new weapons |
| 0:35.6 | in this battle against nasty bacteria. |
| 0:38.2 | Today we'll speak with Dr. Matt McCarthy. |
| 0:40.2 | He's a staff physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and an infectious disease specialist. |
| 0:46.2 | We're going to learn how these super bugs evolve, why they're so concerning, and why we're |
| 0:50.3 | seemingly just sitting here with our hands in our pockets waiting to be wiped out by |
| 0:54.2 | a plague of our own creation. |
| 0:56.1 | I found this discussion fascinating and I think you will as well. |
| 0:59.0 | I met Matthew through my network and I'm teaching you how to create networks for yourself |
| 1:02.8 | using our course six minute networking, which is free over at JordanHarbinger.com slash |
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| 1:08.6 | Most of our guests here on the show subscribe to the course and the newsletter so come |
| 1:11.7 | join us and you'll be in some smart company. |
| 1:13.8 | All right, here's Dr. Matt McCarthy. |
| 1:18.3 | I read super bugs and it's a little scary because of course everyone nobody wants to |
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